Taxon: Phaseolus lunatus L.

Common names:

• butter bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Lima bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Sieva bean   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• sugar bean   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• main dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• haricot de Lima   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• haricot du Cap   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• pois du Cap   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Limabohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Mondbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• fagiolo di Lima   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• aoi-mame   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• chaedu   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:116) – Transcribed Korean
  
• feijão-de-Lima   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• fava-Belém   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• frijol de luna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• haba lima   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• judía de Lima   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pallar   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• limaböna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: pulse   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of Lima bean   (fide Genet Res Phaseolus)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Phaseolus lunatus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize - Cayo, Corozal, Stann Creek, Toledo; Costa Rica - Guanacaste, Heredia; El Salvador - Ahuachapan, La Libertad, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Sonsonate; Guatemala - Alta Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Izabal, Jalapa, Peten, Quezaltenango, Retalhuleu, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Solola, Suchitepequez, Zacapa; Honduras - Atlantida, Colon, Comayagua, Cortes, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan; Nicaragua - Chinandega, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Managua, Zelaya; Panama - Chiriqui, Herrera, Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Para
  Western South America: Bolivia - Cochabamba; Colombia - Magdalena; Ecuador - Azuay, Loja; Peru - Cuzco [Quillabamba]
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chaco, Salta; Paraguay

• widely naturalized

• widely cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Baudoin, J. P. 1988. Genetic resources, domestication, and evolution of lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus). Pp. 393–407 in: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans.
• Beyra, A. & G. Reyes Artiles. 2004. Revisión taxonómica de los géneros Phaseolus y Vigna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) en Cuba. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 61:138–139.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Budanova, V. I. & N. R. Ivanov. 1973. K sistematike roda Phaseolus L. (To the sistematics of the genus Phaseolus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 51:29.
• Caicedo, A. L. et al. 1999. AFLP fingerprinting of Phaseolus lunatus L. and related wild species from South America. Crop Sci. (Madison) 39:1497–1507.
• Debouck, D. G. et al. 1989. Observations on little-known Phaseolus germplasm of Ecuador. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 80:15–21.
• Delgado-Salinas, A. et al. 2006. Phylogeny of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae): a recent diversification in an ancient landscape. Syst. Bot. 31:779–791.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Fofana, B. et al. 1999. Molecular evidence for an Andean origin and a secondary gene pool for the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) using chloroplast DNA. Theor. Appl. Genet. 98:202–212.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:103–110.
• Gutiérrez-Salgado, A. et al. 1995. Evidence for two gene pools of the Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus L., in the Americas. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 42:15–28.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [as P. lunatus var. sylvester].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Leitão, H. F. 1974. Contribuição ao estudo taxonômico do gênero Phaseolus L. no Brasil. Bragantia 33:62.
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. P. 1:57 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Maquet, A. et al. 1999. Phylogenetic study on wild allies of Lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus (Fabaceae), and implications on its origin. Pl. Syst. Evol. 218:43–54.
• Maréchal, R. et al. 1978. Étude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'espèces des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base données morphologiques et polliniques, traitées par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28:145.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:116.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pulle, A. A. et al., eds. 1932–. Flora of Suriname.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Serrano-Serrano, M. L. et al. 2010. Gene pools in wild Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) from the Americas: Evidences for an Andean origin and past migrations. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 54:76–87.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phaseolus lunatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phaseolus lunatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phaseolus lunatus.

Synonyms:

• (=) "Phaseolus falcatus Benth. ex Hemsl., nom. nud."
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Phaseolus inamoenus L.
  
• (=) Phaseolus limensis Macfad.
  
• (=) Phaseolus lunatus var. lunatus
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (=) Phaseolus lunatus var. macrocarpus (Moench) Benth.
  
• (=) Phaseolus lunatus var. silvester Baudet
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Phaseolus macrocarpus Moench
  
• (=) Phaseolus tunkinensis Lour.
  
• (=) Phaseolus viridis Piper
  

Check other web resources for Phaseolus lunatus L.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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